Site Reliability Engineer

JOB TITLE: SRE (only W2, no, c2c)
LOCATION: Onsite in Berkeley Heights, NJ
INDUSTRY: Financial Technology


JOB DESCRIPTION: Theoris is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help build, maintain, and optimize highly available, scalable, and resilient platforms that support critical business applications. This role combines software engineering principles with operational excellence to improve system reliability, automate processes, and drive continuous improvement across enterprise environments.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud technologies, Kubernetes, Linux administration, automation, observability, and production support within large-scale environments.



RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive incident response activities, including triage, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, post-mortems, and long-term remediation planning.
• Partner closely with application development and operations teams to improve system performance, stability, and reliability.
• Monitor production environments using observability and monitoring tools to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Participate in an on-call rotation supporting critical production systems.

• Design, develop, and maintain automation solutions to eliminate manual operational tasks and improve system efficiency.
• Automate health checks, deployments, operational workflows, and infrastructure management processes.
• Leverage tools such as Ansible, Azure DevOps, Azure Runbooks, PowerShell, and Python to build scalable automation solutions.
• Support application onboarding and operational readiness initiatives.

• Support and manage hybrid infrastructure environments spanning on-premises data centers and public cloud platforms.
• Collaborate with cloud platform teams, application teams, and business stakeholders on infrastructure design, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Assist with architecture reviews and reliability-focused engineering improvements.
• Work extensively within Azure and AWS environments, with a stronger emphasis on Azure.

• Monitor system health using tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, and other observability platforms.
• Analyze performance metrics, identify reliability gaps, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner with engineering teams to optimize application and infrastructure performance.
• Documentation & Process Improvement

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Production Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• 4+ years of experience with automation and scripting tools such as: Ansible (highly preferred), Python, PowerShell, Java, Azure DevOps and Azure Runbooks.
• 4+ years of experience with observability and monitoring solutions, including: Dynatrace, Splunk, Moogsoft and Grafana.
• Strong troubleshooting experience within Linux environments.
• Hands-on experience supporting Kubernetes container platforms.
• Experience supporting cloud environments, including Azure and/or AWS.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, operations, platform, and business teams.

PREFERRED:

• Windows server administration and troubleshooting experience.
• FinTech, payments, banking, or highly regulated industry experience.
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains.
• Experience with: GitLab, Harness, Nexus, Terraform and SonarQube
• Experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical production environments.

About Theoris
Our goal is to Fuel Your Career! As a Theoris team member, you join a culture based on people-centered values and an environment that fosters both personal and professional growth. We build long-term relationships with our clients and our consultants. With over 30 years of building strong relationships in the industry, we're uniquely positioned to make the right connections. Our recruiting teams are experts dedicated to the information technology and engineering staffing space and are highly respected by our client base.